A Grilled-Cheese Cheesewich, But With Cheese Instead of Bread

The grilled cheese is the perfect sandbox for culinary innovation. It’s so easy to make that a monkey (maybe with some oven mitts) could figure it out, and its gooey interior can accommodate almost any idea, good or bad, that you can throw at it. Different types of cheese? No brainer. How about throwing some slices of stuff in with the cheese? Sure! You can add meat, you can change up the bread type, and you can even use two whole grilled cheeses as the bun for one bacon cheeseburger, if you’re either college-aged or suicidal.

But until now, one final frontier of grilled cheese had remained: the all-cheese grilled cheese. No bread, no fillings, just cheese. Nick at Dude Foods managed to pull this off thanks to an invention of America’s cheese headquarters, Wisconsin, called “bread cheese.” It’s made of pressed, baked squeaky cheese curds, based on a Finnish cheese called Juustoleipa (which is fun to say), and it substituted perfectly for the real thing. Nick popped a piece of American cheese between two bread cheese “slices,” sauteed it in some oil, and prayed that he wouldn’t drop dead on the spot.